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FALL '99   PH Y S I C S
Colloquium 

Thursday - 4:00 pm.
(Coffee at 3:30)
141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
On the corner of Goodwin & Green, Urbana

 Semester Chair:
Professor Robert M. Clegg
For e-mail to suggest speakers or to comment on the colloquium series: uicolloq@physics.uiuc.edu
To schedule time to meet with one of the speakers, please contact Julie Wright (184 LLP), julie@physics.uiuc.edu
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  1999 Physics Colloquium Schedule

Date

 Speaker Name

Title

 Abstracts
Sept 2 Dr. Kathryn Moler
Stanford University

Unconventional vortices in unconventional superconductors.

To Abstract
Sept 9 Dr. Michael B. Weissman
UIUC, Physics		 Can quantum probabilities be reduced to counting? BS00928_.wmf (3080 bytes)

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Sept 16 Dr. William Edelstein
G.E. Corporate Research & Dev

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Applied physics and electromagnetics.  Magnet

 To abstract
Sept 23 Dr. Gordon Thomas
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs		 Toward the clarity limit in optical fiber. To Abstract
Sept 30 Dr. James P.Sethna
Cornell University		 Multiscale Manifesto: Physics at the interfaces between continuum, defect structures, defects, and atoms.

To Abstract
Oct 7 Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz
Cornell University		 Wax Tectonics--Molding the Earth with wax. NA02256_.WMF (9118 bytes) To Abstract
Oct 14 Dr. Roscoe Giles
Boston University		 Completing the Circle: From computational science to the next generation of computational scientists... To Abstract
Oct 21 Dr. Steven Chu
Stanford University

Looking at individual biomolecules move

 To Abstract
Oct 28

Dr. Watt W. Webb
Cornell University

  Some research paths from physical science to biological science. path finder

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Nov 4 Dr. Wojciech Zurek
Los Alamos Natl Lab

Decoherence, Chaos, and the Second Law

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Nov 11 Dr. Matthew P.A. Fisher
U of California-Santa Barbara		 Electron "fractionalization" in strongly interacting condensed matter systems To Abstract
Nov 18 Dr. Erwin Hahn
U. of California-Berkeley		 How I stumbled over the spin echo.

To Abstract
Nov 25  NO SEMINAR no seminar
Thanksgiving
Holiday Break		  Happy Holiday!  
Dec 2 Dr. Gerry Garvey
Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

Antiquarks and Virtual Mesons in Nucleons and Nuclei

 To abstracts
Dec 9 Dr. Charles Falco
University of Arizona		 The art and science of the motorcycle.  motorcycle

To abstract

Dec 16

  NO SEMINAR no seminar Final Exam week, end of Fall Colloquium Series  

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